tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post612249718907897688..comments2018-03-19T12:50:45.558+00:00Comments on David Hepworth's blog: London. There's no shortage.David Hepworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973053694541321308noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-4642741989275115722009-08-09T19:35:46.804+01:002009-08-09T19:35:46.804+01:00The other Scottish clubs have gleefully milked the...The other Scottish clubs have gleefully milked the Old Firm for years (for example, if it was down to the Old Firm we wouldn&#39;t have the staleness of clubs playing each other four times a season) so smaller clubs taking the moral high ground doesn&#39;t wash I&#39;m afraid. Also, fans of other clubs (Aberdeen, to use a particularly nasty example) can be less than angelic so this fantasy about the supposed niceness of a Glasgow free zone is misplaced, I feel.<br /><br />On your point about a potential move to England, any league in which you can hear simulated gas chamber sounds and ditties about stringing Sol Campbell up from a tree has no right to imply the Old Firm would lower the tone. You&#39;re probably right when you say &#39;they&#39; wouldn&#39;t have &#39;us&#39;, but that is entirely down to the turkeys, Christmas scenario.Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03345758492182779923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-2265406359422088202009-08-08T23:07:10.544+01:002009-08-08T23:07:10.544+01:00Douglas, I&#39;m Scots and I&#39;m continually emb...Douglas, I&#39;m Scots and I&#39;m continually embarrassed by both sides of the Old Firm. And that goes for clubs AND so called fans. The sooner you both piss off to England for good the better..... not that they&#39;d have you.Neil Taskerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00490714648247349289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-76551698740821457522009-08-03T18:26:43.004+01:002009-08-03T18:26:43.004+01:00Douglas, I said at the time there were probably on...Douglas, I said at the time there were probably only two clubs in Europe who would have trashed our city in the same way - both from the same city. All part of living it down, I suppose...Michael Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08616909770570609477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-64927285285207338692009-08-03T09:31:31.785+01:002009-08-03T09:31:31.785+01:00The fact that the ones I saw did is yet another fa...The fact that the ones I saw did is yet another facet of the very multifariousness on which I was remarking.David Hepworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03541581777824775884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-56238866574046947382009-08-03T09:16:49.955+01:002009-08-03T09:16:49.955+01:00I saw quite a few Rangers fans on the Victoria lin...I saw quite a few Rangers fans on the Victoria line from King&#39;s Cross to Highbury &amp; Islington yesterday lunchtime. From what I can recall none of them had red hair.Music Studenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14077437517850357755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-1994973060537880092009-08-02T23:53:09.032+01:002009-08-02T23:53:09.032+01:00Michael,
OK, I&#39;ll rise to your bait about Rang...Michael,<br />OK, I&#39;ll rise to your bait about Rangers fans. As one of the (as it happens, red headed) aforementioned who was in Manchester I feel I have to respond. Fair enough - a minority of &#39;fans&#39; (or people using the club) caused trouble which will take the club years to live down, but on the littering and urinating accusations - fans of other clubs (ok then, Celtic) in the same huge, intoxicated numbers (150k - 200k depending on estimates) would no doubt have tidied up nicely after them before wending their jolly way home. Aye right...Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03345758492182779923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-49888413136063937202009-08-02T19:47:27.586+01:002009-08-02T19:47:27.586+01:00Yesterday I saw a game of Aussie Rules being playe...Yesterday I saw a game of Aussie Rules being played in a park in Muswell Hill.David Hepworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03541581777824775884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-53355758163494786212009-08-02T19:11:51.299+01:002009-08-02T19:11:51.299+01:00Were the Rangers fans pissing everywhere? They did...Were the Rangers fans pissing everywhere? They did when they came to Manchester last year. <br /><br />London&#39;s layers are something to behold. Is there still a South American Football League on Clapham Common?Michael Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08616909770570609477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-68992754445023486072009-08-02T16:15:18.946+01:002009-08-02T16:15:18.946+01:00I used to teach in a primary school in West Hampst...I used to teach in a primary school in West Hampstead. In one class of twenty-eight children, fourteen (yes, fourteen) nationalities were represented. All social groups were represented too; at one table sat the daughter of a BAFTA Award winner (OK, not necessarily upper class, but she was), a child from a large family of travellers, a child with a physical disability and a refugee from Afghanistan.<br />The school&#39;s annual Multicultural Evening, the sort of event that gets disparaged in the tabloids, was extraordinarily moving, like a more emotional version of WOMAD.Nick Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18113940103104310990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-19472306860021320822009-08-02T15:48:49.962+01:002009-08-02T15:48:49.962+01:00I was stood in a queue in my local chipshop last n...I was stood in a queue in my local chipshop last night and passed the time by trying to work out how many countries the people passing by were from. At a rough guess I was looking at at least 15 different countries of origin.<br /><br />It&#39;s one of my favourite things about London. My little gang at school all came from different places originally, seven different countries if you looked at our parents, and even more if you looked further back..Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05163017415448622471noreply@blogger.com